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they had a road,

and the intent was this road to go through

the Korengal and go out to Chowkay Valley

to be able to connect the locals

where they can have an easy route

up towards the Pech River Valley.

And our job there was to try

to sustain the security for the personnel,

to allow them to build that road.

You know, five, ten years from now,

the Korengal Valley is going to have

a road going through it that's paved.

And we can make more money,

make you guys richer,

make you guys more powerful.

What l need though,

is l need you to join with the government,

you know, provide us with that security

or help us provide you guys

with that security.

And I'll flood this whole place

with money and with projects

and with healthcare and with everything.

Remember last week when we said that

everything that happened in the past

when Captain McKnight was here--

we're kind of, like, wiping the slate clean.

Captain Kearney's got a new slate.

Let's put it behind, and let's get on

with what we've got to do now.

Growing up in Oregon, I wasn't allowed

to have sugar 'til I was, like, 13,

because my mom was a f***ing hippie.

And she's always have us doing, like,

little hippie children things, I guess--

making, like, homemade paper or painting

something or going, like, on nature walks.

It was a nice childhood.

I just wasn't allowed to have toy guns

or anything like that,

like boys should have, l guess--

little toy guns or, like, violent video games

or watch any violent movies at all.

Like l had a toy squirt gun that was

a turtle, and my parents took it away

because it said "squirt gun"--

it had "gun" on there.

Fire!

Right now priority...

For the first few months of the deployment...

we'd get rocked hard. They'd hit us from...

They'd ambush us at 360 degrees.

I remember thinking, you know, holy sh*t,

did everybody from the entire country

come to this valley?

Is nobody else fighting anymore?

ls every bad guy in my face?

Oh, sh*t!

Motherfuckers.

In the entire country of Afghanistan,

we dropped something close

to 70 percent of all the ordinance.

All the bombs that were dropped

at that particular time

were dropped in the Korengal Valley.

As CNN dubbed it one day

when Bush saw it

and said, you know,

the ugliest place on Earth--

the Korengal Valley.

But to my family,

I never really told them much

until about halfway into the deployment.

I didn't tell them when Vimoto died.

I didn't tell them

when Sergeant Padilla lost his arm.

I didn't tell them when Pisec got shot.

I didn't tell them when Restrepo got killed.

And then when Restrepo got killed was

a few days before my mom's birthday also.

So I had to... I had to suck it up

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